Name: The Salon Series - La Voix Humaine
Start: 2023-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The MAC

Organization

Admin

Northern Ireland Opera

Zanger

Soprano

Mary McCabe

Elle

Regisseur

Cameron Menzies

Pianist

David Quigley

Visagist

Nuala Campbell

Kostuum ontwerper

Linda Britten

The MAC

The Playhouse

Frans

The Salon Series - La Voix Humaine

Belfast

Verenigd Koninkrijk

Derry

Derry Playhouse

The Salon Series - La Voix Humaine: La Voix humaine Poulenc

Public

Private

La Voix humaine

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Approved

La Voix Humaine is a highly charged one-act, one-woman opera by Poulenc based on a play of the same name written by Jean Cocteau, who directed the first production in 1959.

We watch a woman receive a phone call from her lover and eavesdrop as over the course of 50 minutes, her life unravels as he tells her he is in love with someone else and ends their relationship. Her mood moves from tenderness to neediness and anguish, brilliantly expressed by Poulenc’s music.

It's a powerful, emotional work, with a perspective seen from just one side of a relationship that is ending in real time and the anguish and pain that brings. We feel for ‘Elle’ and go through all the emotions with her as her life falls apart in an intense but universal story of heartbreak and loss.

Cocteau’s monologue also inspired other artworks including Almodovar’s famous film ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’.

English

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Productieteam

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